UFC on FUEL TV 7 takes place Feb. 16 at historic Wembley Arena in London. The event’s main card airs on FUEL TV following prelims on Facebook. The card will be the UFC’s second in England in a span of less than five months following UFC on FUEL TV 5, which took place in September in Nottingham.

The U.K.’s first title fight came in London at UFC 75. That card was headlined by a title unification bout between UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and PRIDE champ Dan Henderson. And at UFC 80 B.J. Penn won the lightweight belt against Joe Stevenson in Newcastle. But that was in January 2008, and fans in Europe, and England in particular, have been clamoring for another title fight ever since.

In the case of Barao-McDonald, UFC President Dana White recently announced that with current bantamweight champ Dominick Cruz (19-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) further sidelined by a second surgery on his ACL, new first reported by MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com), he would make a fight between the two. It apparently didn’t take long to decide on a location.

Barao won the interim title this past July with a unanimous decision victory over Urijah Faber at UFC 149. He was moved into that spot when Cruz blew out his knee the first time while preparing to face Faber for a third time.

Barao’s win kept him unbeaten since the first and only loss of his pro MMA career, which came in his first fight. Since then, he has gone 30 straight fights without a loss – 29-0-1. Under the Zuffa banner, he went 2-0 in the WEC before moving to the UFC and ratting off three straight wins before getting his shot at Faber for the interim belt.

Barao recently told MMAjunkie.com he was already prepared to move on without Cruz.

“I was OK with the news because a lot of people were already speculating that I wasn’t going to face Cruz,” he said. “I wasn’t that focused on him. I’ll be prepared for whoever they put against me. … I already had it in my mind that I could fight McDonald. He’s coming off of good wins and good knockouts. It makes sense.”

McDonald fought most recently at UFC 145 in April, where he scored an impressive first-round knockout of former WEC champ Miguel Torres. McDonald is 5-0 under the Zuffa banner with three stoppages, including back-to-back first-round knockouts. At just 21, he has long been considered one of the bantamweight division’s top prospects.

McDonald has not fought since the quick win over Torres, with a layoff owing to an injury after he underwent surgery to repair ligaments in his hand. But he recently told MMAjunkie.com that he’s resumed full training and would like to fight in early 2013. It’ll now come against Barao.